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China : a new history
- Title
- China : a new history / John King Fairbank and Merle Goldman.
- Author
- Fairbank, John King, 1907-1991.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | DS735 .F27 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Goldman, Merle.
- Description
- xix, 546 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- This book remains a masterwork and is brought up to date by Merle Goldman, detailing the wide array of social, economic, cultural and political changes that have taken place in the last 20 years.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Origins: the discoveries of archaeology -- The first unification: imperial Confucianism -- Reunification in the Buddhist Age -- China's greatest age: Northern and Southern song -- The paradox of song Chin and inner Asia -- Government in the Ming dynasty -- The Qing success story -- The paradox of growth without development -- Frontier unrest and the opening of China -- Rebellion and restoration -- Early modernization and the decline of Qing power -- The republican revolution -- The quest for a Chinese civil society -- The nationalist revolution and the Nanjing government -- The second coming of the Chinese communist party -- China's war of resistance -- The civil war and the nationalist on Taiwan -- Establishing control of state and countryside -- The great leap forward -- The cultural revolution -- The post-Mao reform era -- China at the close of the century.
- ISBN
- 0674116720
- 9780674116726
- 0674116739
- 9780674116733
- LCCN
- 98009474
- OCLC
- ocm38257996
- 38257996
- SCSB-415370
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library